Gobi Desert Dust Helps Califonia Plants GrowI bet you didn't know that dust from the Gobi Desert makes it all the way to the Sierra Nevadas and is an important source of phosphorus for sequoias and other plants living there!

White Mountain Documentary - Thanks for that post! That was a really interesting presentation and having been to the bristlecone grove and many of the other locations mentioned in the film it was particularly relevant.

wildrose: Thanks! It's the best documentary I've seen in a while. The camera work was excellent and the information presented held my interest all the way through. There were a couple spots where the script seemed to be poorly worded and a couple words seemed to have been mispronounced despite the famous narrator. But those were minor details, easily overlooked.

I've been out hiking plenty of times and have looked up at massive granite rock formations and felt like I'd be smashed to smithereens if a chunk of the rock decided to fall off and crush me. So far I've been lucky, but it's like any low probability event, sometimes someone does get unlucky.